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Surprise Me: A Novel

Deena Goldstone · Nan. A. Talese/Doubleday
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

Surprise Me, a debut novel, is an unconventional love story about two writers who see more in each other than they see in themselves, and how that faith transforms them.The fragile dream of becoming a writer takes hold during Isabelle Rothman's senior year of college. Against all advice,...
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Our Souls at Night

Kent Haruf · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 179
Format: Print book

A Best Book of the Year The Boston Globe, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and The Denver PostIn the familiar setting of Holt, Colorado, home to all of Kent Haruf's inimitable fiction, Addie Moore pays an unexpected visit to a neighbor, Louis Waters. Her husband died years ago, as did his wife,...
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Break in Case of Emergency: A novel

Jessica Winter · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

A smart, irreverent, blistering workplace satire set in the world of a nonprofit feminist startup, for fans of Then We Came to the End and The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. When Jen takes a poorly defined job at a start-up chaired by Leora Infinitis--a wealthy sit-com actress and celebrity...
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The Brutal Telling: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel

Louise Penny · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 448
Format: Print book

Three Pines is a village just above the U.S. border where everybody knows everything about each other -- until now.Everybody in Three Pines is shocked when their favorite local bistro becomes the scene of a devastating crime. A stranger's corpse has turned up there, and Chief Inspector...
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Carousel Court: A Novel

Joe McGinniss · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

Following the breakout success of his "searing" (The New York Times Book Review) debut novel The Delivery Man, Joe McGinniss Jr. returns with Carousel Court: a bold, original, and exhilarating novel of marriage as blood sport that reads like Revolutionary Road for the era of The Unwinding.Nick...
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The Jealous Kind: A Novel

James Lee Burke · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

From New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke - an atmospheric, coming-of-age story set in 1952 Texas, as the Korea War rages.On its surface, life in Houston is as you would expect: drive-in restaurants, souped-up cars, jukeboxes, teenagers discovering their sexuality. But beneath...
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My Name Is Leon

Kit De Waal · Simon and Schuster
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

For fans of The Language of Flowers, a sparkling, big-hearted, page-turning debut set in the 1970s about a young black boy's quest to reunite with his beloved white half-brother after they are separated in foster care.Leon loves chocolate bars, Saturday morning cartoons, and his beautiful,...
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The Golden Age

Joan London · Europa Editions
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Winner of the 2016 Prime Minister's Award for FictionJoan London, author of Gilgamesh, gives her readers an immensely satisfying and generous-hearted story about displacement, recovery, resilience, and love with The Golden Age. Thirteen-year-old Frank Gold's family, Hungarian jews, escape...
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